It's not mentioned in either story, but, if you a regular reader of Superpatterns, you'll already know that Capgemini deployed OpenSSO at Valeo to handle single sign-on, allowing Valeo employees to access their email at Google via their Valeo credentials, without having to manage a separate Google username/password.

If you're looking at Google Apps, click here to download the 'starter kit' we recently produced, which explains exactly how to set up single sign-on to Google Apps using OpenSSO.